Kansas Crimson

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 4:46 pm
Trump was a cry of desperation, an acknowledgement on the part of a plurality of voters that the last 40-50 years of politics as usual was an abject failure and that something had to be done. Like your pledge chairman Eric Stratton, the American electorate decided that a really futile and stupid gesture had to be done on somebody's part. So...they did it.

The good news is that there is a way to remedy what was done. The bad news is that it puts back to precisely the point we were at when the electorate decided to elect Trump but exacerbates it by putting into office a guy who has been in Washington for the ENTIRE 40-50 years of politics as usual.

I'm not sure why he wants to be president, but, if he wins, I wish him luck.

Geezer wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 5:15 pm Look up the definition of plurality.

chiknbut wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 5:41 pm "Trump was a cry of desperation, an acknowledgement on the part of a plurality of voters that the last 40-50 years of politics as usual was an abject failure and that something had to be done."

I get this and understand, by why was Putin so desperate?

japhy wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 5:22 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 4:46 pm
Trump was a cry of desperation, an acknowledgement on the part of a plurality of voters that the last 40-50 years of politics as usual was an abject failure and that something had to be done. Like your pledge chairman Eric Stratton, the American electorate decided that a really futile and stupid gesture had to be done on somebody's part. So...they did it.

The good news is that there is a way to remedy what was done. The bad news is that it puts back to precisely the point we were at when the electorate decided to elect Trump but exacerbates it by putting into office a guy who has been in Washington for the ENTIRE 40-50 years of politics as usual.

I'm not sure why he wants to be president, but, if he wins, I wish him luck.

I would go to court and have Eric represent me in my DUI case any day of the week, which is more than I can say of either of the candidates.

Why anyone would want to be president is a valid question. It is an obvious sign of a significant character flaw. Why the democratic party would promote Hillary parte deux is beyond me; even if you try to explain Biden as Obama redux it makes no sense to me. But I am not the target audience. But if it is the middle of the season and the only quarterback you have in uniform is Mitch Trubisky, I guess you just gotta put the ball in Mitch's hands and hope for the best. But decline his fifth year option.

If Biden wins I wish he retires early and picks his VP wisely.

Grandma wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 9:56 pm Illini - I would have voted for her over other Democratic Candidates but she would not have been my first choice.
What blows my mind is how Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 over Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, and Carly Fiorina.
I get why, but it still blows my mind.

Geezer wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 10:18 pm Trump / Pence 62,984,828
Clinton / Kaine 65,853,514

What were you saying about plurality?

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 6:19 am

Geezer wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 10:18 pm Trump / Pence 62,984,828
Clinton / Kaine 65,853,514

What were you saying about plurality?

Popular vote doesn't matter. We are 50 individual states. Not 4-5 densely populated cities.

japhy wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 5:22 pm

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 4:46 pm
Trump was a cry of desperation, an acknowledgement on the part of a plurality of voters that the last 40-50 years of politics as usual was an abject failure and that something had to be done. Like your pledge chairman Eric Stratton, the American electorate decided that a really futile and stupid gesture had to be done on somebody's part. So...they did it.

The good news is that there is a way to remedy what was done. The bad news is that it puts back to precisely the point we were at when the electorate decided to elect Trump but exacerbates it by putting into office a guy who has been in Washington for the ENTIRE 40-50 years of politics as usual.

I'm not sure why he wants to be president, but, if he wins, I wish him luck.

I would go to court and have Eric represent me in my DUI case any day of the week, which is more than I can say of either of the candidates.

Why anyone would want to be president is a valid question. It is an obvious sign of a significant character flaw. Why the democratic party would promote Hillary parte deux is beyond me; even if you try to explain Biden as Obama redux it makes no sense to me. But I am not the target audience. But if it is the middle of the season and the only quarterback you have in uniform is Mitch Trubisky, I guess you just gotta put the ball in Mitch's hands and hope for the best. But decline his fifth year option.

If Biden wins I wish he retires early and picks his VP wisely.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 6:19 am

Geezer wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 10:18 pm Trump / Pence 62,984,828
Clinton / Kaine 65,853,514

What were you saying about plurality?

Popular vote doesn't matter. We are 50 individual states. Not 4-5 densely populated cities.

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 4:46 pm

japhy wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 4:14 pm
My presumption is that Biden is guilty.

And it's true. trump is an existential threat to our country because you elected the petty unstable sociopathic TV personality to piss off the libs and because "maybe he won't be so bad" and now he plays croquet on the front lawn of the White House with the nuclear football, footsy in the Oval Office with Putin and sends supportive tweets to secessionists and white supremacists and antivax nutjobs and creates general chaos whenever he touches anything including the economy. Meanwhile Joe Biden is also another creepy douchebag who gets away with stuff cuz he has money and political power. So, apples and apples.

And now you know, trump can be that bad.

And you continue to support trump because he is an R and because sOcIaLism. And I will vote for Biden because he isn't the antichrist and I would welcome anyone short of that from either party who can remove the crazy shitstain trump from office.

But I mostly hate trump because he is orange, so there's that.

And after Biden is elected if you wanna impeach him, I will not cry that it is a "political act" and complain about how unfair it is. And if you wanna lock Bill Clinton up, that's good too. I think it will be an act of justice and will be happy with that. And trump would still no longer a threat to our country. win/win?

And if trump is reelected, I get my tax cuts and you get dick. Wait, you will "own" the libs for 4 more years.

There really is no difference between our positions, it's all partisan. You will support and make excuses for any Republican who petulantly tries to destroy everything in his path for self aggrandizement and I will vote for any Democrat who does not.

Trump was a cry of desperation, an acknowledgement on the part of a plurality of voters that the last 40-50 years of politics as usual was an abject failure and that something had to be done. Like your pledge chairman Eric Stratton, the American electorate decided that a really futile and stupid gesture had to be done on somebody's part. So...they did it.

The good news is that there is a way to remedy what was done. The bad news is that it puts back to precisely the point we were at when the electorate decided to elect Trump but exacerbates it by putting into office a guy who has been in Washington for the ENTIRE 40-50 years of politics as usual.

I'm not sure why he wants to be president, but, if he wins, I wish him luck.

IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 6:19 am

Popular vote doesn't matter. We are 50 individual states. Not 4-5 densely populated cities.